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Encrypted files in NTFS, shown using a green font

I ran into some encrypted files. You can tell because the font is green instead of black. To decrypt, go to the properties of the file. On the General tab, go to Advanced and uncheck the “Encrypt...

Set a Virtual Machine’s automatic stop action from PowerShell

If you use a virtual machine on Hyper-V Core to manage the Hyper-V operating system, you cannot make changes to the virtual machine that require powering it off because you can’t access the Server...

Extend system partition on Server 2003 using Dell’s ExtPart

The normal method (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590/en-US) using diskpart doesn’t work on the C drive. Supposedly if you can put in the server 2003 boot disc you can make it work, but I did not...

View results from Chkdsk boot time scan

You can find them if you open the event viewer and sort by Source. Look for “Wininit” and it should have the logs/results of the chkdsk. Older operating systems such as Windows XP may have this...

Force your print queue to clear in Microsoft Windows

While printing documents one after the other in Windows Vista / Windows 7, your print job may get stuck sometime. It could hang all the other jobs because Windows stores them in the print queue or spooler....

Get Windows version from command line

Open a command prompt by going to Run… and typing in “cmd”, hit enter Type in “ver” and hit enter, this will give you your Windows...
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